Brownfields 201 1 Cleanup Grant Fact  Sheet
    ™         Lancaster Port Authority, OH
EPA Brownfields Program

EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states.
communities, and other stakeholders to work together to
prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse
brownfields. A brownfield site is real property, the
expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be
complicated by the presence or potential presence of a
hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. In
2002, the Small Business Liability Relief and
Brownfields Revitalization Act was passed to help
states and communities around the country cleanup and
revitalize brownfields sites. Under this law, EPA
provides financial assistance to eligible applicants
through four competitive grant programs: assessment
grants, revolving loan fund grants, cleanup grants, and
job training grants. Additionally, funding support is
provided to state and tribal response programs through
a separate mechanism.

Community Description

The Lancaster Port Authority was selected to receive a
brownfields cleanup grant. Located in rural central
Ohio, Lancaster (population 55,707) was once a center
for glass manufacturing. As large factories began to
locate within city limits, neighborhoods grew around
them. Today, these idled industrial sites are eyesores in
the community and fail to generate property and income
tax revenues. Residents of these neighborhoods are
potentially exposed to environmental risks. The city's
unemployment rate is 10.3 percent, and the median
household income is  about $10,000 less than the
national median. The cleanup site is in southeast
Lancaster, where the  population consists primarily of
low-to-moderate income residents. Cleanup of the
target site will reduce health and safety risks, remove
blight, and increase property values in the area.  The
Port Authority intends to offer the site for industrial or
commercial redevelopment.
                   Cleanup Grant

                   $200,000 for hazardous substances

                   EPA has selected the Lancaster Port Authority for a
                   brownfields cleanup grant. Hazardous substances
                   grant funds will be used to clean up the 5.1-acre
                   former Frick-Gallagher property at 330 South Ewing
                   Street. Primarily used for the manufacture of carbon
                   batteries, the site also was used as a metal plating
                   facility. Site soil is contaminated with volatile and
                   semi-volatile organic compounds, metals, and PCBs,
                   and site groundwater is contaminated with
                   trichloroethylene. Grant funds will be used to
                   remove and properly dispose of impacted soils.

                   Contacts

                   For further information, including specific grant
                   contacts, additional grant information, brownfields
                   news and events, and publications and links, visit
                   the EPA Brownfields Web site
                   (http://www.epa.gov/brownfields).

                   EPA Region 5 Brownfields Team
                   (312)886-7576
                   EPA Region 5 Brownfields Web site
                   (http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfields)

                   Grant Recipient: Lancaster Port Authority,OH
                   740-687-6670 ext 10

                   The information presented in this fact sheet comes
                   from the grant proposal; EPA cannot attest to the
                   accuracy of this information. The cooperative
                   agreement for the grant has not yet been negotiated.
                   Therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are
                   subject to change.
  United States
  Environmental
  Protection Agency
  Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
E PA 560-F-128-092
         May 11

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